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Providing for Under-Achieving Students Using Renzulli's Type III Enrichment Activities: Gifted and Talented Video Projects at Holland Park Comprehensive School.
Warwick, Ian – Gifted Education International, 2001
This article describes how an inner-city school used Renzulli's enrichment activities model to provide opportunities to above-average students who may not have been identified by traditional identification procedures. The program offered students opportunities to produce "real world" videos utilizing a production company who trained them in media…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Enrichment Activities, Film Production, Gifted
Camp Invention Fosters Creativity.
Landona, Nancy – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
This article describes Camp Invention, a summer one-week day camp program for students in grades 2-6 that is designed to develop creativity in gifted students. The curriculum of the camp features hands-on, interactive activities in science, history, math, and the arts. Examples of activities undertaken in 2001 are provided. (Contains one…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Creativity, Curriculum Design, Day Camp Programs
Curricular Modifications, Family Outreach, and a Mentoring Program: Impacts on Achievement and Gifted Identification in High-Risk Primary Students.
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Moon, Tonya R.; Callahan, Carolyn M. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2001
A study investigated the efficacy of specific interventions (mentoring, parental involvement, and multicultural curricula) on academic achievement of 273 elementary students from low-socioeconomic environments. The interventions had no statistically significant effect on student achievement in any grade. However, by the end of the program,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Disadvantaged Youth
Musings: Gifts to the Gifted--Training Our Teachers.
Gross, Miraca U. M. – Understanding Our Gifted, 2002
This article discusses teacher misconceptions of gifted students and gifted programs and the effects of a postgraduate teacher education program in Australia called the Certificate of Gifted Education. Results of the program indicate powerful changes in teachers' attitudes and support the need to provide every teacher with training in gifted…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Attitude Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Equitable Access to Excellence: Opportunities for Gifted Education to an Underrepresented Population through Open Enrollment.
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Awaya, Allen – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2001
This article describes a gifted program that identified students after entry into the program. Students are judged suitable for gifted education after having had opportunities to develop and exhibit behaviors within a gifted classroom. The result has been student opportunities and achievements that span the chasm between excellence and equity.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged, Enrichment Activities